On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:33 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> > Well, basically it is either the one or the other, can't have your cake > and eat it, etc.. > wow, can't have your cake and eat it... that got me cracking up! funny! :) > > Under Unix/Linux, you could use a command like "tail -f <logfile>" which > would display the end of the logfile as it is being written. But I do not > know if Windows has any equivalent thing. > > On Windows Server 2003 and 2008, I use TextPad (which is a really great file editor, similar to Multi-Edit, which I previously used many years ago in the past). Anyway, TextPad always informs me when a file (that I'm currently viewing in TextPad) has been updated, and then prompts me to load the newly-updated file. > Talking about "getting with the times", maybe you are missing another > evolutionary step here : virtualisation (see Vmware etc.). Basically, this > allows you to create a "virtual machine" in which to run Windows (and > Tomcat), and to connect from a remote location to the (also virtual) > console of that machine. This would allow you to continue to run Tomcat in > a command window (and see STDOUT/STDERR), without some of the inconvenients > due to having to have a physical console to run it on. > Interesting. this is good to know.
